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&#quot;We are really talking about peril," Kuriloff says in the living room of her Brentwood apartment. She is an intense, frail-looking, girlish woman of 39 who moves about when she speaks, dashing to the bookshelf to verify a remembered fragment of poetry, changing chairs to find one whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Confronting the Empty Page | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

MOST OF SELLARS' Inspector General understandingly subordinates the moralizing inherent in Gogol's near religious allegory to its boundless wealth of burlesque, making the play a perfect entertainment above all else. Neither Sellars nor the ART actors are shy of sight-gags; in just one extraordinarily droll mime sequence, Stephen...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Gogol's Grotesque Mirror | 5/27/1980 | See Source »

Murray emerges tainted but unscathed from Where the Buffalo Roam's idiotic Big Message scene in which Thompson, confronting Nixon in a men's room, pleads with the president to look out for the "doomed." Nixon leans over the growls the stupidly profound line, "Fuck the doomed." The fact that...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Fear and Loathing | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

William Marvy leans on an antique barber chair, whose cracked leather he has replaced with Naugahyde ("a fine product"). It is one of the grand old cast-iron, nickel-plated thrones made by the Emil J. Paidar Co. of Chicago. Paidar also made barber poles and, until it went out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Minnesota: Poles and Profits | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

ALBERT INNAURATO'S Gemini begins with a deafening blast of construction, a counter-blast of Maria Callas and a volley of shrieks and screams. The protagonist, Francis Geminiani, a Harvard junior back home in Philadelphia for the summer, leans out his second-story window, plants a speaker on the sill...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Smashing the Sidewalk | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

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